Delhi High Court to hear plea for regulation of Netflix, Amazon Prime content

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking regulation of content shown on online platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and others.

The matter is scheduled to be heard by the high court on November 14.

The plea, filed by a non-governmental organisation, Justice for Rights, has claimed that due to lack of regulation for the web-exclusive content, the platforms were telecasting shows full of 'vulgarity, religiously forbidden and morally unethical'.

The PIL has also alleged that the content of several shows on the online platform violated provisions of the Indian Penal code (IPC) and the Information Technology



Act.

The NGO has further sought immediate court orders to remove legally restricted content from these portals.

Earlier this month, the Bombay High Court had issued a notice to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on a similar plea.

These petitions have come weeks after the Delhi High Court, in August, refused to issue directions to the producers of Netflix web original show Sacred Games over a PIL that claimed certain dialogues in the show 'defamed a former prime minister of the country'.

The high court had questioned if such content regulation was within the jurisdiction of the court.